Sister Teresa Forcades, a Catalan disaster
—and Europe's most
radical nun
Catalonia has always been notorious for loony left wing
movements—vis-a-vie the Barcelona Anarchist
of their Civil War days.
This item has been enthusiastically reported by the lefty BBC—who
else?
Her 10-point programme, drawn up with a loony economist,
Arcadi Oliveres, who insists the way forwards is for all people to stop all economic growth.
They are both calling for an
independent Catalonia to do the following:
- A government takeover of all banks and measures to
curb financial speculation
- An end to job cuts, fairer wages and pensions,
shorter working hours and payments to parents who stay at home
- Genuine "participatory democracy" and
steps to curb political corruption
- Decent housing for all, and an end to all
foreclosures
- A reversal of public spending cuts, and
renationalisation of all public services
- An individual's right to control their own body,
including a woman's right to decide over abortion
- "Green" economic policies and the
nationalisation of energy companies
- An end to xenophobia and repeal of immigration laws
- Placing public media under democratic control,
including the internet
- International "solidarity", leaving NATO,
and the abolition of armed forces in a future free Catalonia
This backwards looking pair actually think they’ve come up
with something clever?
The lazy worker will love
this—the power hungry lefty will shout this at the top of their voices, but who
the hell is going to finance all these handouts?
Now most of the above were the
‘official policies’ in the ex USSR, and were a total disaster. Workers fiddled
away their work time and were happy doing so—but were a financial disaster for
the factory and state. Banks didn’t function and housing was shoddy. As for
ending so called xenophobia (another senseless name calling) and repealing the
immigration laws, all it would do is open the flood gates to those economic
migrants that are filing into Europe looking for an easy life. This loony nun
seems to be media hungry pouring out all the pious drivel that she can muster. As
for the so called economist, he’s clearly a depressive who thinks going
backwards is going forwards.
Someone once said, ‘Those who
ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.’ An independent
Catalonia with the above policies will join Belarus and North Korea as a pariah
state.
However, I’m fairly certain that
the people of Catalonia, building on their current financial success, will send
this loony nun to the rubbish dump of dystopia filled with such ideas.
That’s before the Vatican finally
throws her out of her comfortable nunnery she’s ensconced in. Women priests?
Queer priests? Feminism in the Vatican? How out of touch can one silly nun get?
No wonder the dykes in the BBC are so eager to push her thoughts.
